/slideshows/homeMedium/usccb-mtg-front.jpgCardinal says he leaves USCCB assembly more hopeful than when it startedBALTIMORE. The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he was leaving the bishops’ fall general assembly Nov. 14 more hopeful than when...

/slideshows/homeMedium/sr-abuse-panel-front.jpgBishop apologizes for clergy abuse, vows to keep addressing the issueBishop J. Mark Spalding ended the fourth and final panel discussion of the clergy sex abuse scandal the way he started the first: with an apology.

/slideshows/homeMedium/calvery-front.jpgCalvary Cemetery marks 150 years of caring for Catholic communityOn Nov. 29, 1868, Bishop Patrick Feehan, led a long procession of between 3,000 and 4,000 people from St. Mary’s Church in downtown Nashville, which was then...

/slideshows/homeMedium/MsgNiedergerse-front.jpg‘Father Bernard’ remembered as humble servant, true priestMsgr. Bernard Niedergeses, beloved priest of the Diocese of Nashville who was known to generations of Tennesseans as simply “Father Bernard,” was the living embodiment...

On Nov. 29, 1868, Bishop Patrick Feehan, led a long procession of between 3,000 and 4,000 people from St. Mary’s Church in downtown Nashville, which was then the cathedral, to the city’s new Catholic cemetery on Lebanon Pike, three miles away.

Msgr. Bernard Niedergeses, beloved priest of the Diocese of Nashville who was known to generations of Tennesseans as simply “Father Bernard,” was the living embodiment “of what a priest is supposed to be,” said Father John Sims Baker during his homily at Msgr. Niedergeses’ funeral Mass at the Church of the Assumption on Friday, Nov. 9.